This week’s topic was on ethical and green supply chain. Ethics is defined as a society’s general understandings of what is good or appropriate behavior. An individual’s understanding of what is ethical and unethical is different and therefore, what one person defines unethical could possibly be seen as ethical for another person. Corporate social…[Read more]

During Week #8, The class went over the Hulu case study after the presentation was over. The success of Hulu was due to its competencies in streaming and providing real-time content. The TV industry struggle in providing to the consumers what Hulu and Netflix have been able to do. There are a crazy amount of contents online since anyone with a…[Read more]

In Week 7, we learned about how an intangible product flows through the supply chain and whether if the important factors in the supply chain before are still as equally important. There are many advantages to participate in the business for delivery of information goods. There are lower capital expenditure, location independence, device…[Read more]

In Week 5, The class learned about the bullwhip effect. The effect is caused by customers’ demand changes affecting retailers, distributors and manufacturers. This is due to the attempt of protecting themselves from stock-outs and missed orders by keeping extra inventory. The best way to reduce the effect is to collect better information and…[Read more]

This week, the class went over ClearOrbit case study. The one point I found the most interesting was why most of the softwares adopted by companies usually fail. This is due to company employees not understanding how to use the software, the benefits that could be achieved by using the software, the efficiency the software would bring to the daily…[Read more]

I learned about the company Zappos and how the company was able to gain success. It was interesting to learn that Zappos also adopted the robot system that Amazon also utilizes along with why having a supply chain platform is better than the regular supply chain system. The platform allows all the players in the field to gain access to information…[Read more]

We went over the Crocs case during the first half of the class. I was surprised we went into all the little details in class because I was not expecting the professor to delve in that deeply. It was interesting to learn about why Crocs has gained the success it did based on the Supply Chain system it chose to implement and how it worked well for…[Read more]

As far as what I expect to learn in this course, I would like to be introduced to new ways of thinking when it comes to how companies can successfully utilize different resources. Companies nowadays outsource some part of its businesses to other countries. The advantage of outsourcing is it helps companies save money and cut cost meanwhile a…[Read more]

-Scarlet Wu
-SCM / MIS
-Global Strategic Sourcing Internship at AmerisourceBergen Corporation
-Worked mostly on the consumer side so I gained experience in how planograms affect sales, the importance of how merger and acquisitions contribute to the success of the company

I like to check my credit score through the Discover app that I have. It is not something that I use on a daily basis but I mostly go on there to see how I am doing. There are many factors that go into how the credit score is formed and they can be considered as the KPIs. According to the SMART criteria, Specific, Measurable, Relevant and…[Read more]

I had an experience with number 4, it was during my high school year when i was trying to sort my data from my bio lab and I accidentally forgot to select all of the columns. It was not something that could be easily fix and i have learned my lesson since then. The one thing I would mostly want to avoid is working on the database w/o doing a full…[Read more]